I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
In every living thing there is the desire for love.
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.
